Silently Watches
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Considering Merlin and Arthur died about half a millennium before the founding of Hogwarts? Chances are EXTREMELY low.
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Eldritch!Sorting Hat is perfect, and also fits one of the underlying themes of the story. There's all this lost magic, and it's mysterious magic, it isn't the standard Hogwarts cookie cutter stuff.
And like always Hazel is peaking under that veneer, the "this is normal/expected" that is so prevalent in a standard HP world, and also like always the response is "WTF".
And like always Hazel is peaking under that veneer, the "this is normal/expected" that is so prevalent in a standard HP world, and also like always the response is "WTF".
Ah, she got Hufflepuff, the house of every true Slytherin.
Anyway, looking forward to Hazel ransacking the school for every bit of knowledge she can. Why hold back? What'll they do - expel her? Snap her wand that she doesn't have?
Also looking forward the inevitable fiasco with Snape.
Anyway, looking forward to Hazel ransacking the school for every bit of knowledge she can. Why hold back? What'll they do - expel her? Snap her wand that she doesn't have?
Also looking forward the inevitable fiasco with Snape.
Isiri Pudireach
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I wonder if anyone of the staff are confused about the daughter of James and Lily Potter isn't a Gryffindor? Snape is probably relieved though.
I think my favorite interpretation of the Sorting Hat is that Godric bound a demon to his hat because he's Godric "fucking" Gryffindor and he thought it would be funny.
Yeah that was really spooky. Did the Sorting Hat take offense to her attempt to legilimence it?
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The view of Hufflepuff being useless is about to be severely challenged. Not to mention the perception of their 'savior'. This will be fun!
And it does also fit with her background of befriending outcasts as well. Hufflepuff will take the rest with nowhere else to go.
And it does also fit with her background of befriending outcasts as well. Hufflepuff will take the rest with nowhere else to go.
Was that an intentionally incomplete train of thought to start with?
I almost thought she was thinking about the height/growth of Hazel (or the firsties in general) until I read the second sentence.
Start with 'so few' or 'such a small class' and it'll be more immediately clear what's meant.
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The war gutted Magical Britain's population, through death and escapes to other shores.
Mal-3
Fun Tyrant
"All the world shall be your enemy, Princess with a thousand enemies; and if they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you."
It occurs to me offhand that, if Voldemort wasn't a deranged racist megalomaniac who killed all numbers of people including her parents, he would make an excellent mentor for Hazel's quest to learn the truth about the Wizarding World and to ~become the lightning.~ This sort of shit sounds like it'd be right up his alley.
punster lv1
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At first, I thought that was the older students betting on the sorting of the first years. Of course, they'd have used knuts instead of sickles and that would require several older students with differing expectations to be more than passingly familiar with the same first year, but that was still where my mind went. Having it be a ghost fits the themes of the story better anyway.
That said, now I can't shake off the thought that there would have been a betting pool for Harry's (and by extension Hazel's) sorting. It might have been amongst the staff rather than the students, however.
On an unrelated note the previous chapter mentioned that Hazel doesn't look the part of witch, even if it was before she put her robes on. I wonder if that'd be enough for Snape to look at her as her own person.
her nerves were still taut
Reminds me of that chapter in Projection Quest where Cath Palug was pretending to be Rachel's dog, while Greg notices that he was just saying the word 'bark' instead of actually barking.
Yes, obviously, but it was the sentence structure I was commenting on, not the content thereof.
It was all a black ops framing conspiracy perpetuated by the true dark lord, Dumbledore, to cover up the truth behind his nefarious deeds (e.g. making a Horcrux), while defaming the sole man who might oppose him. Moldy Shorts is a goddamn hero fighting a running battle against the true dark lord. Dumbledore has been funneling funds from the Potter inheritance into his terrorist group and propaganda machine, the Order of the Phoenix, while claiming the cloak for himself, getting one step closer to the unlimited power he desires. At least, this is what fanfiction tells me.
In the books Harry had a heroes perspective of self sacrifice, he had no self worth, he wasn't the majestic and prideful lion, he was the sick one, that keep the hyenas at bay, putting himself in being less than the pack so it may survive.
In Hazel we have a different mind set, she has a form of self worth, she thirst for knowledge, but she isn't like an eagle that look from on high safely from predators, for the easy to take prey.
She really is a badger, gnawing at the roots of forgotten lore, though skinned and unafraid of dirtying ones fur to reach her truth.
In Hazel we have a different mind set, she has a form of self worth, she thirst for knowledge, but she isn't like an eagle that look from on high safely from predators, for the easy to take prey.
She really is a badger, gnawing at the roots of forgotten lore, though skinned and unafraid of dirtying ones fur to reach her truth.
Sounds a lot like Second Option Bias. AKA contrarianism.
this selection scene was superb
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I mean, Merlin was supposed to have lived backwards through time, wasn't he? So from his perspective, he just spent a bunch of time as a statue before advising young Arthur.
Would also explain how the Sorting Hat actually works; he already knows what House every child was in, so he amuses himself by thinking aloud about how they were assigned to that House in the first place.
I know that's probably not what you're actually going with, but it at least is an interesting thought experiment.
yacov
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When a functioning family is a hag coven and a werewolf pack, I think Hazel's view is skewed quite a bit.
nah...she's a Fox...curious and getting into places she shouldn't be. That's one of the issues with Hogwarts...Four houses is to restrictive unless you ascribe multiple archetypes to each house. Like in Slytherin you have the Snakes yes but you also have the Spiders(web weavers), the Mantis's(patient hunters), and the Sharks(the predators). That being said...i am kinda surprised Hazel ISN'T a gryff...it is the house of the brave and the BOLD and she is nothing if not BOLD.
KhazintheDark
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She's going to live in the Woods and ride a Hippogryph to the broom riding lessons.
Edit: Complete derailment here but is Mad-Eye going to use a staff and will Dumbledore contact him to try teaching Hazel how she might adapt her methods to Hogwart's normal curriculum. Oh god, all the teachers try getting her to cast silently to start with because what else can they do...
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Silently Watches
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Less took offense and more dropped the act of being just a talking hat.
Fixed.
Because Gryffindor is the house of the brave and the noble. As the Hat pointed out:
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